It would seem, well, what else to dream about? The suburban area is finally ennobled. country house, bathhouse and fence, beds, there is a greenhouse - everything is in order. At the gate there is an arbor, a front garden, but still the feeling of satisfaction somehow does not come.
And all because there is no garden decor, that is, something that fills the surrounding space with individuality, makes it precisely our world, creates good mood and conducive to stay in the countryside atmosphere. Garden decoration can and should be done with your own hands. Making it a work of author's art is not at all as difficult and expensive as it might seem. So what should be worked on?
How to decorate a summer cottage ^
Original flower beds versus traditional flower beds
“Decorating a summer cottage is not necessarily the destruction of what has already been created”
Flowers for decoration garden plot have been used for a long time. Flowerbeds with petunias, peonies, fragrant tobacco, roses - can be found in any courtyard. Usually this landscape objects give the correct shape and standardly enclose with plastic or obliquely laid bricks. But what if, instead of one sprawling flower bed, make several small flower beds? This will not entail material costs and will not send you in search of exotic plants.
A few small flower beds will enliven the site
Items that have already lost their relevance, even in an unpretentious country life, will help to revive the familiar picture in front of the window, such as:
- dishes;
- worn furniture;
- various utensils.
Old dishes in the garden decor
Look around! To decorate the site with your own hands, you will probably find a holey trough, a rusted wheelbarrow, a leaky pan, a lone shoe in the barn. All this wealth is not difficult to transform into something amazing imagination. In many cases, the container will simply need to be filled with earth. If there is space, you can make a garden decoration, and a whole bed. In general, the raw material for the implementation of the author's ideas is often, in the literal sense, underfoot.
Bright flowerbed from an old car
Decorating a summer cottage is not necessarily the destruction of what has already been created. If all kinds of stationary flower beds were originally planned in the decor for the garden, the location and appearance of which suits you perfectly, try to freshen up the atmosphere by updating them appearance. How? Well, let's say, build a picket fence from pegs or braid them with an elastic vine, like a tyn.
Decorate your flower beds with a wicker vine
In principle, any material of natural origin can be used for the fence:
- stone;
- chocks;
- slats;
- boards;
- branches.
Natural stone fence
Do not rush to get rid of construction debris. Fragments of tiles and bricks are also good for edging flower beds.
Stone fences, as elements of garden decor, should try to give different shapes. In the simplest case, stone fragments are laid out in several rows, so that a high curb is formed. More talented in design, you can lay out stone vases, wide bowls or baskets as a decor for the site with your own hands.
Flowerbed - brick snail
Carried away by the creation of original flower beds, one should not forget about the compositional unity. Stone exposures will not harmonize with wooden facade and vice versa.
We decorate reservoirs
The pond itself is a great decor for the garden, however, this object can be improved in its attractiveness. To do this, you will have to equip waterfalls or fun fountains inside impromptu ponds and lakes. The sounds of the murmur of falling water and the rainbow of water dust formed by intersecting jets can be admired day and night.
Small fountain for garden decoration
The lucky ones can be considered those through whose plot a stream passes - it will also make an excellent decoration for a summer cottage. However, in this case, the emphasis should not be on fountains, but on the arrangement of thresholds, with the help of which a real cascade of waterfalls is formed.
Artificial stream with rapids and bridge
The similarity of a natural stream is easy to imitate. All that is needed for this is the presence of a functioning water supply system in the house. Thresholds, in an artificial stream, it is better to replace with a small composition of jets escaping from under the water column. This effect will help organize fountain nozzles.
An illuminated pond will also act as an original decoration of the garden. In the evening, the iridescent palette of the water surface will make an indelible impression. Sets of lights of above-water and underwater design are not so expensive as to forego such pleasure in garden decor.
Pond illumination at night
How else to decorate country cottage area in the water area? figurines and statues. It can be turned into a fabulous lake, surrounded by gnomes or inhabited by mermaids.
A good idea is with an earthenware jug, as if forgotten on the shore, which turned over on rounded pebbles and pours the water collected into it back into the pond.
An earthenware jug is ideal for decorating a pond
Tree in garden decoration
Easy to process and affordable, wood can serve as the main raw material for creating masterpiece garden decors with your own hands. Such designs can have a purely decorative function or carry an additional practical load. The functional objects of garden decor include:
- gazebos;
- fences;
- bridges;
- benches.
That is, everything that is used in everyday life.
Wooden elements, as decorations for a summer cottage, are attributed to the manifestation rustic style, which perfectly impresses with country landscapes. The main buildings here were erected in the style of Russian architecture (from rounded logs or a kind of timber). A carved bench or a whole set of furniture in the form of deliberately rough stools-blocks and an unplaned table may appear near a cut down bathhouse.
Functional log decor for a rustic garden
Somewhere along the alley you can put a carved donkey harnessed to a cart full of flowers. He will become a household name, symbolizing diligence and perseverance.
Wooden donkey with a cart
When deciding how to decorate a summer cottage, pay attention to such an element as a well. It can be improvised under a flower bed or acting.
Having conceived the decor of the site with your own hands, use old and interfering trees in your work. Evaluate their shape, location. Perhaps they should not be sawn to the very root and obligingly get rid of the hemp? A cut trunk can be a wonderful garden decoration.
Stump design option
Even a dead tree is beautiful in its authenticity and naturalness, and if you add a drop of fantasy to this, then a pretty flower bed, a fabulous house or a luxurious chair for a siesta will appear on the site.
Stone garden decorations
Stones also represent a category of natural materials, only they are used, often in their raw form. They are beautiful from the start. The stones give an idea of the power of nature and perfectly demonstrate the timelessness. No wonder this material is so loved by Japanese designers who create huge and miniature philosophical gardens.
Japanese style rock garden
It is difficult for the Slavs to delve into the very essence of contemplation, therefore, in the garden decor of a summer cottage, stones appear in a more prosaic form. Paths are paved with them, curbs are made, alpine slides are constructed.
Alpine garden slide
It doesn’t matter how the stone is laid out when decorating the site with your own hands, it is guaranteed to ennoble the territory. Even a handful of gravel sprinkled under a flower or scattered near a pond will be enough to give these elements sophistication, let alone granite blocks or marble in a garden landscape. Relief irregularities can also be used to decorate the garden. They are decorated with bushy flowers, stones. Rockeries, dry streams are created from them. It would be appropriate to look at a stone path paved across the stream.
Dry stream will decorate any garden
What is the main thing in working with stone? First of all, the availability of resources and, of course, fantasy. Finding a stone placer somewhere on the threshold of the mountains is much easier than typing right amount material in the field. In the second case, to decorate the garden plot, boulders, crushed stone, rubble stone, decorative dumping, etc. - have to buy.
DIY site decor ^
You can make the summer cottage area charming and at the same time not overstrain by activating your own imagination and using everything that comes to hand. Even a broken flower pot can be the key to success. It is not difficult to transform cracked and split ceramics into Thumbelina's house. And how to decorate a summer cottage with other items?
Plastic decor
“Plastic garden decor is not distinguished by pretentiousness, but you can’t refuse originality to it”
Modern plastic containers are rarely given to ordinary people. It is simply sent to garbage containers, although in the country the bottles are ready to become indispensable raw materials for all kinds of crafts. Perhaps plastic garden decor is not distinguished by pretentiousness, but you cannot refuse originality. Having a mountain of containers in reserve, set up an artificial plantation of cacti and palm trees in the middle of a living garden. The unexpectedness and exoticism of the element will allow it to become the strong point of the landscape composition.
Garden decor from plastic bottles
If there are no monumental stocks of plastic, stop at a few penguins, which will greatly enliven the decor of their summer cottage, especially in winter, when it's time to decorate the Christmas tree. Representatives of the younger generation will be happy to participate in such fun.
A pair of bottles are taken to work on garden decorations. Each pair is cut so that a ten-centimeter lower part remains. The separated bottoms are connected into a barrel and covered acrylic paint white color. The preparation is ready. Then it remains to paint the decor for the garden, dressing it in a black tailcoat, a yellow hat, a scarf that matches the color and draw eyes with a beak. A foam pom-pom or an old tennis ball is attached to the top.
Penguins from plastic bottles
Such manipulations are repeated several times. A penguin shouldn't be bored. You can make a whole family of funny birds, and give them a cozy clearing on the site.
The flexibility and pliability of plastic allows you to work wonders out of it. In decorating a summer cottage, it can be used in all sorts of ways. A plastic bottle equally successfully transforms into both a lawn fence and garden furniture.
Fencing for flower beds made of plastic
Mosaic decor for the garden
A summer cottage is a fantastic space for expressing one's individuality and demonstrating creativity. If you are not alien bright ideas in the design of the garden, then mosaic placers will be exactly what you need. Mosaics can be laid out garden paths and lake shores. It is permissible to decorate fences and inlaid garden furniture with it.
Mosaic decoration of garden furniture
This garden decor is truly versatile. This is a great way to update garden decorations, like worn sculptures. Mosaic masonry is made with pieces of old tiles, broken porcelain, glass.
How to decorate a summer cottage with mosaic placers? You don't need to have an artistic gift to do this kind of work. It is enough to carefully lay out the compositional elements. If you wish, you can try to create a specific pattern.
The use of mosaics for garden decor
Old tire as a flower garden
Finding a used car tire is a breeze these days. But they are an excellent material for decorating a site with your own hands, because they are ideal for building nice little maxi-pots for flowers. For greater decorativeness, the tire is cut on one side so that the teeth are visible. The base of the future flower bed is painted. Then the elements are laid out over the site, covered with soil and planted with your favorite flowers.
Flower garden from old tires
Old barrel in a new way
Having painted a rusted barrel with bright patterns, you can equip a house for ampelous plants in it. It is often converted into a vertical bed by cutting holes in the sidewalls. Barrels can also be included in garden decor as ordinary water storages. In this case, the emphasis should be on the originality of their painting.
Decorative painting of barrels for the garden
If there are no watering cans or basins left to decorate the summer cottage, and the flow of creative ideas does not dry out, take hold of the wicker baskets. They are not so durable, but after treatment with wood preservatives, they can last more than one season. They decorate the porch, terrace, gazebo.
Wicker baskets for garden decoration
You can talk about how to decorate a summer cottage for a long time. Let's try to choose the most attractive solutions.
A chair thrown away by someone can become the basis of a mini-flower garden. For an absolute transformation, you need to throw away the seat, replacing it with geotextiles, fill it with nutrient soil, and you can plant flowers with a superficial root system, such as mosses, young, sedum. A pair of bindweeds that can beautifully wrap around the back and legs of the structure will not hurt either.
The chair can become the basis for a mini-flower garden
If there is no real pond in the garden decor, but you really want to get a pretty bridge into it, put it in a mixborder. Pouring water is imitated by low-growing or creeping plant species, and irises and other tall grasses will help decorate the banks of an impromptu stream.
Climbing plants imitate flowing water
Don't know how to decorate your backyard? Find an old umbrella, bike or wheelbarrow and transform it into a makeshift flower garden. The highlight of your flower bed collection can be shoes and shoes used as pots. Motley shoes can be placed around the garden, along the paths, nailed to the fence.
An old bicycle will become a highlight of garden decor
Do not rush to repair the damaged paving slabs on the tracks. These potholes are a great opportunity to decorate the garden plot with your own hands. The resulting pits are filled with soil and low-growing stonecrops, mosses, pansies are planted in them.
The summer cottage is always full of natural materials, quite suitable for transformation into garden ornaments. For example, it is easy to arrange an original flower bed in a stump by hollowing out its core. In the resulting hole, you can put a plant in a pot or saddle a flower garden in the standard way, filling the stump with earth and planting beautiful flowers. In highly cut dry trunks, it is good to plant liana-like and climbing plants. Beautifully falling from above, they form green or flowering columns, which can be played in a peculiar way in landscape design.
flower bed in stump
floating flower beds
The presence of a pond on the site is a real gift for a novice designer. The object can become the main decoration of the garden plot. To do this, it will be enough to decorate the water surface with a floating flower bed. They are easy to build. You will need:
1. A piece of foam.
2. A plastic container or an unnecessary basin.
3. Soil.
4. Ornamental plants.
The bottom of the plastic container is perforated and lined with geotextile. This will prevent the soil from being washed away by water. An impromptu flowerpot is filled with earth mixture and planted with flowers.
Foam base for floating flower bed
To give the floating flower bed greater stability, it is installed on a foam stand, the snow-whiteness of which is masked. You can hide the protruding edges under the turf or falling shoots of climbing plants.
Disguise pallet flower beds
When forming water decorations for a summer cottage with your own hands, give preference to water-breeding plants. This category includes undersized daylilies, swamp irises, hostas. Floating flower beds are equipped with an anchor or launched into free swimming.
Floating flowerbed in the pond
A leaky boat standing on the shore can also be turned into a flower bed. It will become not just a logical addition to the landscape, but an aesthetic link between the two elements - water and earth.
Flower bed from an old boat
And some more ^
New duties of old tools
Old choppers, rakes and pitchforks are another unpretentious, but very effective way to decorate a site with your own hands. Having arranged them in a tripod in the center of the flower garden, you will get an excellent stand for climbing plants. Such a green pyramid will add charm to the whole landscape.
Old garden decor tool
Bright accent
In the spacious garden, you can arrange an unusual clearing, the main element of which will be the multi-colored tent of Scheherazade. It is made from a suspended hoop, to which a colorful translucent lightweight fabric is attached. Its ends can be left in free flight or fixed to nearby branches. Wicker furniture, as well as a hammock, will look good under such a canopy.
hoop tent
Through the Looking Glass
Optical illusions in garden decor are a very impressive thing. The reflection effect adds depth to the space. You need to hang mirrors in areas of the fence behind the trees. At right choice their locations, you will immediately notice how the boundaries of the site are erased.
Reflection effect adds depth to space
Non-standard bench
An old bench with a fallen seat can be repurposed as a garden decor item. The remaining frame can be filled with plants in flower pots.
Original flowerbed from an old bench
Branching installations
Dry branches and driftwood can also be used to decorate a summer cottage. Of these, you can lay out or weave a semblance of arches and gates, which will very successfully separate the yard from the garden.
branch arch
welcome guests
It is not at all necessary to make the garden sedate and prim. It can also create a fun environment. Gloves painted in different colors will help to show his funny side.
Masking extra elements
If there are not too aesthetic looking, but extremely necessary items in the garden, they should be converted into garden decorations, but this should not be done by rebuilding or dismantling, but simply by hiding unaesthetic objects under decorative covers.
magic lanterns
Fans of evening gatherings in the garden are well aware that in this case one cannot do without lighting. However, it is difficult to consider an ordinary light bulb as a garden decoration. It deprives the atmosphere of mystery.
Let yourself enjoy the effect of waiting for a miracle, filling the night with magic and romance. Add homemade lanterns to your garden decor. Cans of tin or glass origin can become their basis.
Lanterns from cans will fill the space with magic
In a tin, according to a previously drawn drawing, holes are stuffed with a nail. A burning candle is placed inside the prepared container. If the flashlight is planned to be hung to decorate the garden plot, then a wire handle is attached to the tin.
Tin can lanterns
Glass jars are stained with stained glass paints. Then proceed according to the already described algorithm.
Decor in the winter garden
For many, a dacha is a place of permanent residence, and not just a house for seasonal recreation, so the desire to see its territory attractive in winter is quite natural.
Summer is the most favorite time for summer residents and gardeners, because in addition to the planting and harvesting season, you can show your imagination and decorate your own plot. What is used as a garden decoration? A variety of materials are suitable for this: plastic bottles, tires, old furniture, plywood, firewood and much more. Landscaping of the site will reflect the character and taste of the owner. Unleash your abilities and start making DIY garden crafts to decorate the garden. The photos from this article will help you visualize what the products look like. self made from improvised materials.
Plastic bottles for garden decoration
Today, almost all drinks are produced in plastic containers, from water to milk and kefir. Most often, all bottles accumulate on the balcony or in the pantry, since it is not very convenient to throw them in the trash - the container takes up almost the entire bucket. Is it worth throwing them out at all or can they become good material to decorate your garden?
Any site should have a beautiful flower bed, but sometimes it is not enough to enclose it. building materials. Plastic bottles Ideal for decorating a flower garden in the country. To do this, you will have to decide on the place where the flowers will grow. After that, around it is necessary to dig a trench into which bottles will need to be inserted. Pick up a plastic container of the same size and fill it with sand to make solid and reliable supports. Then insert and bury the bottles upside down.
Flowerbed from plastic bottles
Flower from a bottle
To do this, you need to draw a blank, and then decorate and cut it. In order for the flower to look like a real one, the edges of the plastic are slightly melted over the flame of a candle.
Butterflies from plastic bottles
Many gardeners have already planted a palm tree from plastic bottles on their plot. It is very easy to make, as bottles are a versatile material and easy to work with. You will need to prepare brown and green bottles, as well as a frame for the palm tree so that it does not blow away.
bottle palm tree
Do you have an ugly facade of the house? Try decorating it with flowerpots. To do this, it is not necessary to buy expensive flower pots, just pick up a few plastic bottles, make cuts in them, fill them with earth with flowers and hang them on threads.
Craft Ideas for Garden Decoration
How to decorate a garden or summer cottage? It all depends on your imagination and the available materials. Remember that flowers and ponds will attract the eye for a long time, and crafts from improvised materials will have to be updated periodically. Combine natural and artificial materials then your site can rightfully be called unique.
In this article, we will offer you ideas that allow you to decorate your backyard or cottage in a very original way. Most of the ideas we offer do not require almost any investment, only skillful hands, a little imagination and a desire to turn your garden and yard into a charming corner.
A cheerful ladybug made from an ordinary shovel will definitely delight the guests of your site.
An artist's palette, where instead of paints there are fresh flowers. You can cut out such a design from ordinary plywood, and simply insert pots with flowers of different shades into the holes. Win-win option, agree!
It is immediately clear that the owners of this land plot seriously approach its design and cultivation of vegetables. Everything is neat, neat, but at the same time bright and beautiful.
Plastic pots were simply strung on a metal rod. The design looks very unusual.
To create such an unusual flower bed, all you needed was an old kettle.
A flowerbed-hearth in a real pot, suspended on a chain.
Another old-new idea. Turning a hemp into a fly agaric with a metal bowl is an old idea, but adding old shoes, a red nose and expressive eyes is original version. And this composition is complemented by bright strawberries and ladybugs, just scattered on the grass.
Stone - whether it be natural boulders or an artificial version - can be used to create a wide variety of, including such flower beds-baskets.
It is immediately obvious that the owner of this personal plot has the talent of an artist! In such barrels, you can store rainwater for irrigation, arrange a flower bed, or simply turn it into a striking element of landscape design.
Do not rush to throw away the old bath! It can turn into such a charming artificial pond, and without any effort and expense.
And this old bath has become a real fountain thanks to another old and already unnecessary thing - a pipe that has served its purpose.
If your site is protected from prying eyes by a high fence, you can decorate it from the inside with this simple vertical gardening option. All you need: plastic bottles from mineral water or lemonade with holes cut out, reliable rope or fishing line, soil, as well as plant seedlings or seeds.
Another very popular option for decorating a garden is all kinds of cars, carts, wagons that turn into flower beds and become a highlight of landscape design.
Old plates that you no longer use in the kitchen can be an unusual fence for a flower bed.
"Box of pencils" as a fence for the site. Who's to say it's boring and ugly?
In Europe, these old chairs, which have become flower stands, can be bought at special markets and sales. But you can make such original flower beds with your own hands without spending a dime!
At first glance - a chaotic collection of things. But in fact - a well-thought-out landscape composition.
Visual illustration for the manual " new life old things." This is how an ordinary washbasin became an elegant fountain.
A teapot with a broken spout, chipped or cracked cups can be handy containers for flowers. You can’t exactly call such a flower bed banal.
In general, decorating a garden is a matter of the owners' imagination and their desire to make some effort. We hope that our ideas will stimulate your actions and help make your backyard more original and vibrant.
A private plot outside the city with a beautiful garden is a great opportunity to take a break from the bustle and noise of the city. And it doesn’t matter how big the estate is and how often it turns out to spend time here. If you approach the design of your site creatively, it will always bring a lot of positive, joy and inspiration.
We hope that our creative selection of unusual garden ideas will charge you with an inspired impulse to ingenuity until the end of summer.
“Flower bed”
Flowers in the garden - a familiar story. And why not diversify the green area and build such a romantic garden decoration in the form of a flower bed? Such a blooming art object can become a creative inspiration for creating romantic poems and songs.
Game of textures and proportions
This garden excites the imagination with its play of textures. Decaying trees nestled comfortably in soft grass that does not need to be trimmed (red fescue, from lat. Festuca rubra). A clay amphora of impressive size creates the impression that a mythical giant from a fairy tale lives here.
patterned path
The highlight of your garden can be a pebble path, but not simple, but lined with artistic patterns.
This carpet is simply a masterpiece!
With the help of leaves, concrete and plastic containers, you can make blocks for a garden path with a floral pattern.
Maze in the garden
Studies have shown that it is enough to go through the maze once, as the heart rate normalizes, the pressure decreases and breathing stabilizes. And you can combine business with pleasure and build a labyrinth in the garden or in the yard.
Garden decoration with spheres
Fixtures
Shining balls in the garden create a truly fabulous atmosphere. To do this, you can use a ceiling lamp on a support, a pendant lamp or a spherical lamp placed directly on the ground. Such a decoration will become a bright accent in a handicraft array and fill the garden with shining magic.
An interesting idea for the garden - hanging lanterns made of paper. They will be a great decoration for a celebration in the open air. Hang them directly on the branches of trees, and in the evening, thanks to miniature LEDs, the air spheres will radiate a romantic glow.
Finely trimmed bushes and delicately planted trees, together with green lawns of grass carpets, resemble real geometric lines.
Spherical shrubs, placed in groups along the sidewalks or around the perimeter of the area of the site, are an excellent replacement for curbs. They skillfully perform the function of zoning space.
Spherical planters can become a magnificent decoration of the garden. They will look doubly effective with backlighting.
Floral composition
The center of the “universe” of your garden can be a luxurious floral arrangement with spherical motifs. The theme of roundness is skillfully completed by a large ball made of branches.
Artistic creation on stones
Love to draw? Have you thought about trying rocks? Let your creativity be the center of attention, because painted stones in the form of colorful houses will be a wonderful decoration of the garden. But by the way, you can draw anything - it all depends on your creative ambitions and skills.
Pebble house
Metal jewelry
The fence enclosing the garden can serve as a canvas for drawings, but unusual ones are made of metal.
But such colorful figurines will fill the estate with a joyful fairy-tale atmosphere.
Graceful figurine-candlestick - another original idea to decorate the garden.
Openwork pebbles in the garden
There is nothing easier than pasting over large pebbles with openwork white shreds. Unexpectedly, simply and incredibly beautiful!
Hanging flower pots
Beautiful compositions of hanging flower pots on the fence really look elegant and festive. Arrange your garden like this, and let there always be a holiday in it!
Where to sit?
An elegant swing forged from metal or a bright butterfly bench will become not only your favorite places to relax, but also a chic decoration of the estate.
And a bench made from old sawn tree branches and rope-covered tires is another idea for outdoor gatherings in the garden.
Unusual options for places to stay can be continued. Bright solutions shown in the following photos.
artificial waterfall
You can look at the blazing fire, listen to the babbling brook endlessly. So why not enjoy a natural phenomenon every day? You can arrange a mini-waterfall right at the table near your estate.
Violin pool
The owners of this garden are real music lovers. They built a pool that exactly repeats the shape of a violin with a bow (the photo shows a narrow strip of water in the background - this is the bow). Spending time in such a pool is a real pleasure. And at night, when it is illuminated with colorful lights, you can feel like a real hero of a Hollywood movie.
Pool Restaurant
Why build a bar by the pool, if it is quite possible to arrange a whole restaurant, and install places for vacationers right under the water.
radiating light
A glowing garden in the evening is not difficult to make. Garlands, glowing pots, LED Strip Light, homemade lamps from an ordinary can, decorative lanterns - everything is in your hands.
unusual fence
Behind such a bottle fence, there must be a wine cellar.
Another original idea for your fence is to decorate it with colored glass balls. The effect is impressive, especially under sunlight.
Another bright selection of ideas for your garden can be seen in the following photos.
Garden and garden plots serve a very tangible practical purpose - their main purpose is to grow fruits and vegetables on them. That is, we use these territories for food. But these areas can be made the focus of style, transforming with the help of improvised materials and even unnecessary things that you wrote off, mistaking for trash. Simple garden decoration with your own hands - photos, little tricks and unusual ideas we have selected for you in this material.
The easiest and most common way to transform a site is, of course, its landscaping. Flowers and hedges are an organic and self-evident solution. Flowerbeds and green plantings are the best decorations for the garden. By adding greenery to the garden, you solve several problems at once.
- Flower beds will give the site well-groomed and "groomed".
- Vertical landscaping will add volume to the territory, hide some imperfections (withered trees or stumps, outbuildings with peeling paint, etc.). Use bindweed, ivy, hops and lemongrass.
- Hedges will help divide the territory into zones, hide your possessions from prying eyes. Usually use thuja, rosehip, jasmine and lilac.
Tip: if your choice fell on vertical gardening, and you want your garden to smell fragrant during the flowering season with blooming green carpets covering the walls, first stretch a rope or fishing line along them. This way the plants will cover the required area faster and grow better, plus you can control their direction.
Decor with an emphasis on practicality
- gazebos
If you want to equip a place to communicate with guests under the canopy of fruit trees, you won’t find a better idea than installing a gazebo. Choose models made of wood rather than synthetic materials - they look nobler and fit organically into the atmosphere of any garden. In the garden, you can also make a mini gazebo to relax from work, or you can find an unusual creative greenhouse.
- Furniture
Furniture - good way ennoble at least a garden, at least a summer house, and even in a garden plot it will come in handy. A wrought-iron bench or stylized chairs and tables will add sophistication and sophistication to the area, especially if you combine such furniture with a green hedge or a canopy of fresh flowers. So you solve two problems at once: a household item will serve as an element of decor.
- Fences and fences
The first thing that catches the eye of guests is the fence. Therefore, you also need to think about its decoration. Protection from prying eyes and intruders is important, but a fence can also serve more than just practical purposes.
Use a figured grid, metal fantasy elements. The fence can be planted with girlish grapes, the same ivy or roses. If your fence is solid, paint it with bright colors, use ornaments and floral patterns.
Liven up the fence with bright colors - this will add attractiveness to the entire site.
birdhouses
If you want the garden to always be filled with the chirping of birds, you can equip birdhouses, baths and feeders for birds. Use your imagination, forget about primitive square houses - make a birdhouse of an unusual shape, several floors, take care of the color. This will bring your garden to life, literally and figuratively - bird housing can be the highlight of your garden design.
An unusual birdhouse can be an interesting accent in the decor.
Paint Tip: Whatever you decide to paint, it's best to choose light, soothing colors as this will add light to the exterior.
- original backlight
If the area is large, you will need to illuminate the area at night. And all kinds of lanterns, lamps will come to the rescue in the design and decoration. Use hanging lanterns, which can be equipped with mini beds with hanging plants, large lanterns with candles, stained glass options and lamp houses. So the issue of lighting will be removed, and you can add mystery and even fabulousness to your garden. Garlands also look good.
With the right choice, the garden will be buried in flowers day and night.
- Let's add water
The most spectacular decorative garden decorations are ponds. Depending on the area, vary the size of the pond or stream. In addition, this is an excellent solution if the groundwater on the site lies close to the surface - such a move will allow you to occupy part of the land unsuitable for planting. If you decorate a pond with lilies, water lilies, launch live fish into it or throw a bridge, you will become the owner of a real Narnia. Nearby you can place figures of mermaids, fairy-tale creatures. You can decorate the pond with floating candles.
Turn on the creator mode: the quintessence of creativity
Using the resources of your imagination, you can make a truly unique and inimitable landscape design, there would be a desire. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to spend fabulous sums on the purchase of expensive sculptures made of bronze or stone. Independent garden decoration from improvised material is gaining more and more popularity, plus it allows you to prove yourself as a designer, sculptor, art artist, and so on and so forth.
Anything that catches your eye can be used. Look into the bins of closets and sheds - for sure there were old things that could be given a second life. A pinch of fantasy, bold adventurism and a sense of beauty - all that you and I will need in this exciting business. Well, and also, of course, a minimum of investments - you can’t do without it (for paint and other auxiliary materials).
- old shoes
If you paint unnecessary children's or adult shoes with paint (or, by the way, you can leave it like that, with deliberate shabbyness, just don't forget to wash it), they will turn into a spectacular element of decor. They can install small lamps along the path, build mini-flower beds from shoes, put candles in them and install them on the porch. Properly styled old shoes and the right context - and the shoes look appropriate and stylish.
Boots - a creative version of the flower bed
- broken things
Building materials lying around (wallpaper, sawdust, bricks and tiles) can be used for decoration if you approach this issue with creativity and a share of healthy irony. Cracked tiles or broken bricks can be broken into pieces and laid out with fragments of the path. If there are unnecessary CDs left in the house, they can also decorate the path.
Fragments can be hung on a fishing line to lamps, decorated with beads and rhinestones, you can lay out borders - depending on how much source material you have and how far you are ready to go for your idea.
Broken pots can be filled with earth, digging them a little into the ground, and planted with bright flowers so that no cracks can be seen - voila, the decor is ready.
The remains of crushed stone, sand and broken bricks can be painted in different colors and laid out around the flower beds in different patterns, it turns out very cool, try it. The same construction waste can be laid on the paths - there is no need to go the simplest way, laying them out with ordinary stone tiles, it's boring.
Unnecessary plastic and glass containers often accumulate in the country, especially after the holidays. Don't want to throw it away? Use it as a material for decorative purposes. A well-made garden decoration made of plastic bottles or glass containers will look expensive and unusual. Bottles can be used in different ways:
- The bottoms of glass bottles can be used to draw the same paths.
- Shapely cut plastic bottles make wonderful garlands for the garden, play with colors and textures, there are many master classes on this topic on the Internet.
- Bottles can be filled with colored bulk substances (sand, mulch) and made into a mini-fence for flower beds, laid out along the paths, used cut plastic bottles for planting small plants - it looks spectacular.
- If the Great Experimenter lives in your soul and is strong enough, you can go further - make a house-lamp out of glass bottles and cement: the glass will transmit light, you will get a non-trivial decor element with a minimum of costs.
- The bottoms of the bottles can also be useful for decorating the house itself - at the porch you can make a mosaic out of them on the wall.
Photo ideas for using glass bottles:
Plastic bottles are useful everywhere
- Mirrors and frames
If you have a couple of old or cracked mirrors in your bins, with the right entourage and composition, their fragments will make your exterior truly spectacular. And if you have frames from old paintings or from the same mirrors, you can create a unique flower bed by combining these elements together.
As you can see for yourself, there are a whole sea of options for decorating a garden and vegetable garden. You can make art objects with your own hands, you can take ready-made elements as a basis and decorate to your liking. If you have imagination and a bit of patience, your site will sparkle with colors and colors. Try, experiment, be brave.
